362 69. VITTABIA. § 2. TAENIOPSIS. 



Fronds 50-45 c.M. long, 1 — 5 c.M. broad, the point acute, the edge 

 entire, the lower part narrowed very gradually to the base. Texture thick: 

 midrib thick, blackish, grooved, sometimes nearly lost upwards; veins oblique, 

 fine, parallel. Sori in brond, continuous, submarginal grooves, with the firm, 

 unaltered edge of the frond at first rolled over it. 



Samoa to Ceylon, Br. India, South. Africa. 



(20) \. philipplnensis, ChrUt, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 2e St^rie, VI, 

 1007. 



Rhizome creeping, caespitose, crowned with numerous, long, slender, 

 (lexuose, setaceous scales. Stipes subfasciculate, ± 5 c.M. long, widening 

 gradually into the frond. Fronds + 50 — 60 c.M. long, ± \% c.M. broad, 

 long-acuminate. Texture flaccido-coriaceous ; colour light-green, opaque; cosla 

 slender, inconspicuous; veins very oblique, inconspicuous. Sori narrow, intra- 

 marginal, impressed, reaching from the base to the apex of the frond, more 

 or less covered by the ± i^ecurved, indusium-like margin. 



Luzon. 



TO. T^^EIVITTS, WiUdenou). 



Sori long, linear, continuous or interrupted, superficial or more or less 

 immersed, in 1 line on each side, parallel to the costa or the margin; para- 

 physes lineaF, the terminal cell large and thickened; spores globose to letra- 

 hedral. No indusium. 



Rhizome hairy. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. Fronds simple 

 or more commonly pinnate ; veins anastomosing copiously. Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 

 tab. VI, fig. 57; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 161, C- D. 



Tropical Asia k Fiji. 



1 ^^°^^s simple. (,) T. obtusa. 



f f Fronds divided. 



+. Pinnae ± i—4\ c.M. broad. (2) T. blechnoides. 



+.+.Pmnae ± %—i c.M. broad. (3) T. stenophylla. 



(1) T. olitusa, Blf., Hk. Bk., Syn, Fil., 396; Hk., Icon. PI., X, tab. 

 CMXCIV; T. blechnoides, Sw., var., C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



